Originally posted by manimtired:
my issue was that biden came out and said that the US would be hit with a big international crisis if/when obama is elected in his first 6 months in office...
Originally posted by manimtired:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Biden_Obama_will_be_tested.html
'tired, are you really that stupid and gullible? right-wingnuts have twisted this into "international crisis will occur BECAUSE obama is elected". you really have to want to believe that to ignore what was actually said.
let me explain it to you: biden was saying that he foresees an international crisis coming (doesn't take a crystal ball to predict something like that), and obama will have to face it because he's president (and he'll face it successfully, blah blah blah). he's saying that shits goin' down, and that whoever is in the white house - and it will be obama - will be tested by challenges. should mccain be in the white house, he'd be tested by them too. for an analogy, bush has been tested by afghanistan, the war in iraq, the economy, etc (and, for the most part, he's failed. fyi.)
this was also biden going on the offensive on a topic that mccain has had an edge on: tough-nosed international relations. good for the dems.
maybe the GOP is taking issue with someone predicting an international crisis? ok, take issue with the pessimistic outlook. not much of issue there... again.
